Sheree Atcheson, the British IT genius, united with her biological mother at a Sri Lankan TV station after 26 years on November 15.
Sheree ran into the mother’s arms during the heart warming surprise meeting planned by the News 1st team who helped her trace Weera Mudiyanselage Dingiri Menike. Their DNA matched 99.9 per cent according to the doctors.
The woman profusely apologized for what she did but teary-eyed Sheree said: “I understand why she did what she did. Look at the outcome of it. I am in a better place and I have a good career. What she did was not wrong it was the suitable decision for that time.” Weeping Dingiri Menike also hugged her British son-in-law, Sean McCrory, who married Sheree in a celebrity wedding last June. Sheree’s own sister too was present to welcome her.
She contacted the TV station when she spent part of the honeymoon in Kandy where she was born but left for England disappointed. Sheree, named one of the 50 most influential women in British IT industry, spoke to her for the first time on Skype though a translator in Sri Lanka last month and promised to meet her in three weeks.
On October 18 the media channel received a call from Melsiripura, a suburb close to central town of Kurunegala. The caller has said that the woman who gave birth to Weera Mudiyanselage Niroshika (Sheree’s birth name) on February 28, 1991, is related to him.
“I have achieved so much in life due to my adoptive mother and my birth mother who gave me for adoption so selflessly. This is the most successful adoption story I ever know. I don’t know whether my real mother is alive,” she said earlier before finding her mother’s whereabouts.
She married Sean McCrory in June this year and the wedding made it into celebrity columns of the media. The ring bearer of their marriage was her seven-year-old pet dog Alfie.
Sheree became the UK Expansion Director of Women Who Code in 2016, responsible for advancing the WWC networks across the UK, after founding the organisation in 2014. The Computer Science alumna of 2013 from Queen’s University Belfast, is placed at No 35 in the list of most 50 influential women in technology in the UK.
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